National Republican., 1887-02-07

A distinguished gentleman of the late war
tolo me recently that Abraham Lincoln pro.
posed to avoid our civil conflict by purchase OF
all the slaves of the south and setting them
free. He calculated what would be q reason
able price for them, and, when the number OF
such purpose was announced, the proposition
was secuted, and the north would not have
made the offer and the south would not have
friend, "the war went on and just the number
OF millions of dollars that Mr.. Lincoln calcu.
lated would have been enough to make a
reasonable purchase Of al the slaves, were
were hurled away in the two hundred and
fifty battles" In other words. there ought to
be some other way for men TO settle their con-
troyersies without wholesale butchery.
The church Of God will yet become he
arbter Of nations, If the world would allow
1t, u could to-day step in between Germany
SAGE and Lorraine. and between Russia and
Bulgaria, and between England aud her an.
tagonists, and between, all the other nations
ntss for the plough the war. horses now being
hitched to ammunition wagons or saddled for
cavalry charge. That time must come. or
through the increased facility for shooting
men and blowing up cities and whelming hosts
to instant DEATH. so that we can kill a regi
ment easier than we could once kill
than we could once xiii a regiment, the pat
ent Offices Of the world more busy than ever
IN recognizing new, enginery Of destruction.
with one arm, and hobbling with one foot,
and stumbling along with one eye, and some
ingenious inventor, inspired of the archangelo Of
all mischief. will contrlye machine that viii |
bore hole to the Sarth's center, and some
desperate nation will throw into that hole
enough dynamite to blow this hulk OF a planet
into fragments, dropping like meteoric stones
ON surrounding stellar habitations.
But this shall not be: for whatever else let
go hang on to my Bible, which tells me that
the blacksmth's shop shall yet come to its
grandest use when the warrior and the hus-
soldier shall throw into It's bank of fires his
sword and the farmer shall pick it up n
ploughshare, and the straightest spear shall be
bent into crook at each end, and then cut Ia
two, and what was one spear shall be two
pruning forks. Down with Moloch and up
with Christ Let no more warhorses ca. out
OF the maneer where Jesus was born.
Peacel Forever roll off the sky the black
pillars of smoke from the Marengos and Sala-
inancas ana porodinos and Sedans aud Gettys'
burgs OF earth And rignt uftor them, roll into
the heavens the peaceful vapors from the
chimneys of farm houses and asylums. and
churches, and capitals of Christian nations,
and, as the sunlight strikes through these va,
pors, they win write in letters of Jet and gold
all over the sky from horizon TO zenith: "Glory
to God in the highest, and on earth peace. good
viii TO men !" Then let all the emen;;of'warilr fire
broadside, and all the forts thunder forth a
resounding volley, and the earth be girlded
with the cannonade over the final victory of
the truth.
While thinking of these thugs looked out
from my window, aud the wind was violently
blowing. And saw from many chinlneys the
smoke tossed in the air aud whirled In great
velocity, volume after volume, fold after fold,
and carried on the swift wind were the great
The text saw the speed OF the church sym
Church Of G6d si Is UNDER Why, the smoke sf Of
a chimney on the top Of Mount Washington
the hour, is slow as compared with the celebrity
of good influences. For hlty.nine centuries
the devil had IL his own way among the ma.
tioDs. Nearly all the great missionary move
ments have been started within the century,
and see what one century has done 10 recover
the world from fifty nine centuries of devaSta.
churches! What saved millions! What ad-
vaneing civilization In all the United States,
Great Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy
full freedom to worship God according to con-
science. Along the coasts of China, Japan,
and Africa the batteries are planted which are
TO take all these empires for God ant ciyilizl'
tion. From the ruins of Babylon aud Assyrla
and Nineveh and the valleys o. the Nile con-
iairminded men that the Bibleis the truest
book ever written. The mythologies of Egypt
were found to have embodied in them the
knowledge of mans expulsion from Paradise,
and tho sacrifice of great emanclpltor
Moses's account of the creation, corroboratei
by the hammer of Christian biologists ,
lhc coluSht pIOlhlS WTlleIh llke hltOMuS, llc-
lanicus, and Berosus, confirming the Bible ac.
count of ancient longevity; Tacitus and P.lny
confirming the Bible accounts of destroyed
sodom and Gomorrah; Tacitus and P1rphyry
telling the same story of Christ as Matthew
ana Luke told; Macrobius telling of the mas
sacIe OF children in Bethlehem, aud phlegon
sketching the darkness at the cruCifiXion. 1t
Is demonstrated to all honest men that II Is
not 80 certain that William Cullen
Bry amt wrote Thanatopsis or Longfellow wrote
Hiawatha as that God by the hand of prophet
and apostle wrote the Bible All the wise men
in science, and law. and medicine and litera.
luIel and merehandlse are gradually coming 10